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Proper syntax for ROBOTS meta information

         

GooGoo

1:03 pm on Jun 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Is...

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW,NOARCHIVE,NOCACHE">

...proper syntax?

pageoneresults

1:38 pm on Jun 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hello GooGoo. You can find more information on the Robots META Tag here...

HTML Author's Guide to the Robots META Tag [robotstxt.org]

I've not seen the nocache directive. Where did you find that one?

To prevent Googlebot from caching a page, you would use the noarchive directive.

Remove cached pages from Google [google.com]

Proper syntax for your example to do what it is I think you want to do would be...

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<meta name="googlebot" content="noarchive">

You'll need two Robots META Tags. One generic one which covers all obedient bots and one specific one which covers googlebot and the caching issue.

webmstr

1:00 pm on Jul 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Just a question...why would you not want the robots to follow linked pages through your site?